Why is an EV's backup power less than it's driving power?

Were you bullied at school? You really are pathetic. Why do you feel the need to be safe? Don't tell me, you actually wear a cycle helmet and a use a seatbelt, just in case....

STOP EDITING THE F****NG NEWSGROUPS YOU UTTERLY PATHETIC TROLL.

Just a little bit. You don't need to have another smart home unit, but you do need to sample/test the grid voltage, freq and phase before injecting energy into the grid. The Leaf can handle it physically, but still need custom software (never released by Nissan) to do it. There were only a few private test/demo projects.

It's not about automation. It's about safety and using one connection to charge your car and use V2H. I suppose you are the same sort as Ed Lee and want to hack into your BEV. While there is a right to repair movement that I support, it does not include idiots trying to install equipment they don't understand.

LOL! Yes, by all means install a second connector to your car for V2H. I'd love to see the complexity in your design, added to not install an automatic mains disconnect switch.

This why you work at Burger King and not as an electrical engineer.

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Yes, I wear seatbelts. They have saved many, many lives. It's a shame that the Darwin impact of seatbelts are not more direct and effective.

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It's not rocket science to take a 400V battery and make 240V AC out of it.

I already explained the relay to you.

I have never worked at such a place. Why can't people make their own food?

By the way, I did install my own solar system. Sold the panels to someone going to Africa, since there isn't any f****ng sun here.

You failed. Grow up.

You are talking about V2G. This is about V2H. The issue is not aligning with the power in the line. The issue is the power from the car must be prevented from reaching the line. When the line is damaged, people need to work on it with no power in it for safety. So all V2H must be cut off from the grid and automatic generation of power to the home requires automatic disconnection from the grid.

Just before the seatbelt law was introduced in the UK, only ONE THIRD of all drivers wore them. Therefore you are in a minority.

Easy, use the relay I mentioned.

Awwwww, you care about workers nothing to do with you. You f****ng pathetic humanitarian.

Any sensible electrician working on the line will not assume there is no power there.

Who cares??? There are any number of idiots in the world. You seem proud to count yourself among them.

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No, but they will have to visit every home fed by that line in order to get the V2H shut off. Or they may identify the home responsible and pull the meter, returning to reconnect some day in the future, long after the car battery is depleted.

What's really scary about home brew installations, is that some yo-yo would have installed the cutover switch the wrong way, never having it inspected (sounds like YOU) and turn the system on after the line workers had found the line safe and started working on it.

This is why we have laws, to protect the rest of us from morons like YOU.

F*ck the warnings. Killfile it is. You clearly don't understand usenet.

I will mark this day in my calendar. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

At last, the answer. Instead of saying "continuous and peak power output" they said "backup and driving mode". So either it's a continuous current draw problem, or as you said a matter of cooling.

They specify the power of the motors so the consumer knows how much acceleration to expect - just as you get HP ratings on petrol cars (I won't write ICE because that means In Car Entertainment, the acronym was already taken), and therefore their battery will provide that much (at least briefly - there are some s*it EVs without battery cooling which have a problem going up a long steep hill, like the French Alps.)

I'm confusing nothing. When I say kWh I mean capacity. When I say kW I mean how much you can draw at one time. I do not confuse energy with power, I have a degree in physics.

If you can afford a Ford EV Truck, you can afford a big inverter.

They'd lose me as a customer.

Have you ever used a battery?

WTF? Autobahns are famous for NO speed limit at all.

Nobody obeys limits. Well maybe about 2/3rd of folk. But a high proportion ignore it.

I'm 47 and drive as fast as the car will go. 1/3rd of the population do. Why would you limit yourself?

Jesus. You meant 3 mph per kW. Wrong twice in the same sentence.

Acceleration, safer and more fun overtaking.

You are double wrong in EV jargon. Miles per kwhr is the standard language for EV efficiency. Ask anybody who drives EV, and i bet you don't.

You were discussing (in the bit you snipped from your own text!) how speed was related to motor/battery power. Yet you wrote how distance travelled was related to battery capacity. Completely a different thing.